Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 4 February, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: i  a  c  e  h  m  t

  • Total Answers: 46
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like occasion
  2. AC4 β€” sounds like occur, sky
  3. AC6 β€” sounds like ascetic

AT

  1. AT5 β€” a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building; as in refined, cultured; cockloft; garret; loft sounds like antic, stick, tick

CA

  1. CA5 β€”
  2. CA4 β€” sounds like balmy, cocky, coffee, collie, comma

CH

  1. CH4 β€” sounds like awry, buy, die, dye
  2. CH4 β€” sounds like keel, keen, keep, key, keyed
  3. CH4 β€” being in the latest or current fashion; a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time; Γ  la mode; au courant; cool sounds like beak, eke, geek, leak, meek
  4. CH5 β€”
  5. CH6 β€” as in extravagant, ostentatious; as in finery, froufrou; extravagant; exuberant; fancified
  6. CH5 β€” a series of short high ringing sounds; peaceful coexistence; to form a pleasing relationship; jingle; tinkle sounds like dime, lime, rhyme, time
  7. CH4 β€” as in sister, lass; bird; filly; lass; lassie sounds like bit, fit
  8. CH8 β€” friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; backchat; cackle; causerie; chat sounds like begat, detach, detached, detect, detest

CI

  1. CI4 β€” to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height

EM

  1. EM8 β€” to lose bodily strength or vigor; decay; droop; fade; fail sounds like initiate, irradiate
  2. EM6 β€” sounds like aesthetic, ascetic, medic, metric, poetic
  3. EM4 β€” to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; cast; discharge; emanate sounds like mitt, omit

ET

  1. ET5 β€” as in norm, principles; conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue; following the accepted rules of moral conduct; form; mode sounds like epic, thick

HE

  1. HE6 β€” being in a state of increased activity or agitation; agitated; excited; feverish; frenzied sounds like arctic, septic, tactic
  2. HE7 β€” sounds like emphatic, pneumatic, rheumatic, t***
  3. HE8 β€”

HI

  1. HI5 β€” a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized; a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position; to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion; booby trap; catch sounds like bitch, ditch, hatch, hear, here

IM

  1. IM4 β€” sounds like mom
  2. IM7 β€” to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to make an exact likeness of; ape; copy sounds like acetate, agitate, annotate, emanate, estate

IT

  1. IT4 β€” sexual appetite; a strong wish for something; intense sexual desire; concupiscence; desire sounds like b, d, each, ear, etch
  2. IT4 β€” a separate part in a list, account, or series; a report of recent events or facts not previously known; as in collectible; detail; particular sounds like atom, autumn

MA

  1. MA8 β€”
  2. MA4 β€” to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
  3. MA10 β€” meeting the highest standard of accuracy; accurate; close; delicate; exact

MI

  1. MI4 β€” sounds like mecca
  2. MI4 β€” as in cowards, pussies; as in icebergs, cold fishes; cowards; milquetoasts; nebbishes sounds like dice, ice, lice, mass, mess
  3. MI4 β€” an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; mimic; mummer sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum
  4. MI7 β€” using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model; apish; canned; emulative; epigonic sounds like mystic
  5. MI5 β€” to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials; burlesque; caricature sounds like gimmick, mythic
  6. MI4 β€” a very small sum of money; a living thing much smaller than others of its kind; a very small amount; chicken feed; chump change sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height
  7. MI4 β€” sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit

TA

  1. TA5 β€” understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
  2. TA6 β€” something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
  3. TA6 β€” sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty

TE

  1. TE7 β€” sounds like airtime, anytime, daytime, mealtime, meantime
  2. TE6 β€” as in geek, technocrat; gearhead; geek; technocrat; technophile sounds like tacky, talky, tarry, turkey

TH

  1. TH8 β€” sounds like pneumatic, rheumatic

TI

  1. TI4 β€” a particular point at which an event takes place; an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand; an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing; moment; occasion sounds like chime, dime, lime, rhyme, tam
  2. TI5 β€” an amount of money that a person gives to a church which is usually equal to 1/10 of that person's income; alms; benefaction; beneficence; benevolence sounds like with
  3. TI7 β€” sounds like litmus

acacia, acai, acetic, attic, cacti, cami, chai, chia, chic, chica, chichi, chime, chit, chitchat, cite, emaciate, emetic, emit, ethic, hectic, hematic, hematite, hitch, imam, imitate, itch, item, mahimahi, maim, mathematic, mica, mice, mime, mimetic, mimic, mite, mitt, tacit, tactic, tatami, teatime, techie, thematic, time, tithe, titmice